Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDo not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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